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Naomi Oreskes, the Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, is the author or co-author of seven books including Merchants of Doubt (2010), The Collapse of Western Civilization (2014), Discerning Experts (2019), Why Trust Science? (2019), and Science on a Mission: American Oceanography from the Cold War to Climate Change forthcoming in April 2021.

In 2018 she was named a Guggenheim Fellow for a new book project with Erik Conway, The Magic of the Marketplace: The True History of a False Idea, forthcoming from Bloomsbury Press.

On March 12th, 2021 Naomi Oreskes will give a virtual lecture “Can Science Be Saved?” as the Oregon Humanities Center’s 2020-2021 Cressman Lecturer. Register at https://ohc.uoregon.edu